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Investigating The Effects Of Covid-19 Blame And Racist Language On Asian Americans, Adenike Hickson
Investigating The Effects Of Covid-19 Blame And Racist Language On Asian Americans, Adenike Hickson
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We conducted a study to test our hypothesis that racist language and blame related to the COVID-19 pandemic might have a negative impact on Asian Americans’ sense of belonging in the United States. We presented Asian American participants (total N = 271) with a non-racist or racist language flier, paired with a low blame or high blame passage of text with fabricated statistics about how much the average White American blames Asian Americans for the COVID-19 pandemic. We predicted that participants in the racist language and high blame condition would report greater perceived increases in prejudice since the start of …